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Example sentences for: centenary

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The old man would have been content to allow the occasion of his centenary to pass unremarked, but his family had other ideas.
To mark the centenary of this remarkable book and help revive interest in its author, I hereby undertake to hand over a prize of ¥100 to the first person who challenges me with the words: “You are Michel Vercambre the eminent scholar who discovered the meaning of the word discubitory and I claim the prize of ¥100.”
This month marks the centenary of Friedrich August von Hayek, the Austrian economist, anti-socialist, Nobel Prize winner, and dreamboat.
One occasion was the centenary of Manet's painting Olympia, and The Independent (where else need I turn for material?) ran an article on how the picture's critical reception had changed from rejection by a scandalized France in 1890 to enthusiastic acclaim by an admiring world in 1990.
Clint Bolick, a prominent Washington conservative and frequent spokesperson for the anti-affirmative action view, used the centenary of the Supreme Court's Plessy vs.